National Register #80004628
Kidd and Knox Building
228-236 Broad Street
Nevada City
Built 1856

In 1850, Hamlet Davis opened a general merchandise store in a tent on this corner.
Prospering, he replaced the tent with a two-story woodframe building which featured a reading
room above the new store. Soon Davis enlarged the second floor for a Dramatic Hall,
the first theater in Nevada City.

The wooden building was destroyed by the Great Fire of 1856 and immediately replaced
by the "fireproof" building which stands here today.